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A programme of five works which appropriates the quotidian dining table in enigmatic and often unsettling ways, as a site for indulgence, interrogation and even execution.
Speculative ASMR experiences enacted and received by unconscious participants, comical anthropomorphisms which belie a ominous, disturbing undercurrent, and metatextual menus read aloud in imaginary restaurants, all abound in this constellation of works which seek to reconnect sonic experiences with human physicality through posthumous pampering, externalised violence and absurd culinary solicitations.
Fraz Ireland - The Lost Supper
Four diners enter an imaginary restaurant. They order and are served their desired dish, they taste it, and once they are satiated, they offer their apologies, stand up, and leave.
Neo Hülcker and Henry Wilde (aka Antonia Baehr) - Musik für tote Tiere
In the Copenhagen Opera Festival offices, two musicians perform a concert for a dead pig. They regale it with the sounds, vibrations, frequencies and objects that gave it pleasure in life.
Caitlin Rowley - Cake Piece
A delicious cake reacts to being cut into pieces. Stoic at first, it gradually becomes unable to contain its increasing anguish.
Alexandra Hallén - ät tårta
Three diners examine the life-cycle of cake from birth to death, and rebirth again, leading them to question their received conceptions of time and mortality.
Michael Hope - À la carte
Four diners attend a hyperreal dinner party overshadowed by the suspicion of a murder mystery. But was there really a murder after all? Is there even a mystery?
Performances:
MINU_festival_for_expanded_music, KU.BE, Copenhagen, 19/11/23
Radikal jung Festival 2024, Münchner Volkstheater, Munich,
23-24/04/24 (3 performances)
Produced with support from Statens Kunstfond, Koda Kultur, and Radikal Jung Festival.
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